“Toxic” is a Grammy Award-winning dance-pop song written by Bloodshy & Avant, Cathy Dennis, and Henrik Jonback for Britney Spears’ fourth studio album In the Zone (2003). It was released as the album’s second single in early 2004 (see 2004 in music). “Toxic” enjoyed critical acclaim and international success, topping many singles charts around the [...]

“I’m a Slave 4 U” parts ways with Spears’s previous singles in a number of ways. It was written and produced by The Neptunes. The song was originally intended for Janet Jackson, who found the song to be too sultry for her vocals and unfit for her album, so The Neptunes offered it to Spears. [...]

Reviews were generally favorable. According to Metacritic, which combines reviews from the nations top critics, the album has a 64% approval rating from critics.
The Sun newspaper in the U.K. had an exclusive preview of the album and were the first ones to post the world’s first reviews of Circus. Of the track, “If U Seek [...]

Circus is the sixth studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears. Jive Records, in collaboration with Zomba Label Group and Sony Music Entertainment, released it on November 28, 2008. Having moved over 505,000 copies in the United States in its first week, Circus debuted on the Billboard 200 at number one, making it Spears’s [...]

The controversial music video for Everytime was directed by David LaChapelle. Vanessa Grigoriadis reported in “The Tragedy of Britney Spears” (2008), her cover story for Rolling Stone, that “Her concept was to die in an overflowing bathtub with pills and booze strewn around, and get reincarnated as a baby. There were demons that she was [...]

Announced as the lead single from the album, “Womanizer” was first released to radio stations worldwide on September 26, 2008. It was released commercially in the United States on October 7, 2008 through digital distribution. It was released as a CD single on October 25, 2008 in Australia; November 14, 2008 in Germany; and on [...]